CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-41178

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-10-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-10-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22, CWE-23, CWE-434

Description

Nextcloud is an open-source, self-hosted productivity platform. Prior to versions 20.0.13, 21.0.5, and 22.2.0, a file traversal vulnerability makes an attacker able to download arbitrary SVG images from the host system, including user provided files. This could also be leveraged into a XSS/phishing attack, an attacker could upload a malicious SVG file that mimics the Nextcloud login form and send a specially crafted link to victims. The XSS risk here is mitigated due to the fact that Nextcloud employs a strict Content-Security-Policy disallowing execution of arbitrary JavaScript. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server be upgraded to 20.0.13, 21.0.5 or 22.2.0. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

Affected configurations

• nextcloud server (>= 20.0.3 < 20.0.13) • nextcloud server (>= 21.0.1 < 21.0.5) • nextcloud server (>= 22.1.1 < 22.2.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal weakness
  • CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type weakness

References